{"id":732,"date":"2009-07-22T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T17:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2009-07-22T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T17:35:17","slug":"homegrown-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/07\/homegrown-herbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Homegrown Herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to have an herb garden.  Herbs are impossibly expensive at the supermarket (usually around $2 for a package, and you can&#8217;t buy them in smaller units) and you don&#8217;t tend to use them that much.  But I&#8217;m a terrible, neglectful gardener &#8211; or rather, I&#8217;m not a gardener at all, so I&#8217;ve just mumbled and grumbled about wanting an herb garden and never really did anything about it.<br \/>\nThen, a few weeks ago, my 7-year-old daughter Mika started saying she wanted to plant vegetables.  I figured if she was planting, I could be planting too, so I cleared out a section of dirt by the front porch and planted some rosemary, sage, chives and basil, plus some thyme and oregano in a pot I already had.   The kids, meanwhile, planted some veggies in the back yard.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been meticulous about watering them every day &#8211; and they are finally paying off.   The herbs are doing beautifully and actually starting to expand.  Hey, the moment may come when they fight each other off \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nHere are some pictures I took this morning.  We&#8217;ll be cooking with our herbs all week long (tonight I&#8217;ll be making some pesto).  I&#8217;ll post recipes, if warranted.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"basil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/basil.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"357\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rosemary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/rosemary.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"444\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/sage.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thyme\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/thyme.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"329\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oregano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/oregano.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"395\" \/><br \/>\nAnd here are some of Mika&#8217;s veggies  &#038; fruits:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"strawberries\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/strawberries.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"349\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tomatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/tomatoes.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"239\" \/><br \/>\nAnd finally, some blackberries we&#8217;ve let grow:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blackberries.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/blackberries.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to have an herb garden. Herbs are impossibly expensive at the supermarket (usually around $2 for a package, and you can&#8217;t buy them in smaller units) and you don&#8217;t tend to use them that much. But I&#8217;m a terrible, neglectful gardener &#8211; or rather, I&#8217;m not a gardener at all, so I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}